Yes, this was a red flag in the article. She's a tenured professor being attacked by a pair of anonymous malicious students who could destroy her career with one false, perverse accusation, with impunity? And the idiot administration is taking these accusers seriously enough to hire an out of town law firm to prosecute the case? She should definitely have lawyered up and threatened a big, glaringly public, embarrassing lawsuit. Bureaucrats are cowards, in general, and such a tenuous case would likely have been dropped.